{"id":29295,"date":"2020-04-21T09:28:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T09:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/?p=29295"},"modified":"2020-04-21T09:28:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T09:28:55","slug":"solution-three-by-naomi-mitchison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/solution-three-by-naomi-mitchison\/","title":{"rendered":"Solution Three by Naomi Mitchison"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As a fast-paced novel about a future shaped by feminist ideals of sexual and racial equality, ‘solution three’ at first seems to be a peaceful answer to the world’s problems. Homosexuality as an international norm and reproduction by cloning have minimized aggression and overpopulation. The sexes have equal rights and status, racial tension has been eliminated through genetic intermixing, and scientists work closely with the governing body, the Council, to keep an eye on the food supply and to heal the earth of prior environmental terrorism.<\/p>\n

Originally published in 1975, Solution Three presents a future society in which reproductive control and homosexuality shape a more equitable life for all, eradicating aggression and racism, curbing overpopulation, and providing a dependable food supply. But there are those who are rebelling in this peaceful world: Miryam, a geneticist, secretly married, is rearing her own children; Lilac, a surrogate mother chosen to carry a Clone baby, is delaying her son’s seizure for social conditioning; and even the carefully conditioned Clones are behaving unexpectedly. This novel asks the courageous question: What is the cost to women of new models of reproducing life, regardless of the intentions behind the goal?<\/p>\n

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‘An all-wise Council rules a future utopian world. One of their decrees does away with male-female sex and promotes homosexuality — in the interests of harmony and nonaggression. Eventually, a new, perfected human race will be created by cloning techniques.’ – Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 334. <\/p>\n

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‘Reminiscent of BRAVE NEW WORLD, although Mitchison’s world is more temperate and rose-colored than Huxley’s … surprisingly good hearted.’ – Helen Nicholls, Foundation. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985<\/p><\/div>\n

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